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The Jenner Lecturer this year was Sir Peter Medawar. In the title of his lecture he posed the question 'Is inoculation against cancer theoretically possible?' and he started immediately by expressing the opinon that he thought it should be. He presented this complex subject with great lucidity, beginning with a graph showing the relationship between the incidence of breast cancer and the age of first pregnancy and showing that as the age advances so does the incidence of breast cancer. He explained it as follows?malignant cells contain active substances of genetic origin which are antigenic and are also present in normal embryo cells. These substances become dormant as the
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